Is giving birth at an advanced age bad for children?
With the social progress and improvement of living conditions, more and more women choose to postpone childbearing to pursue career and personal development. However, the elderly childbearing has also brought some adverse effects. This article will elaborate on the bad effects of elderly childbearing on children from the perspectives of physical health, intellectual development, emotional needs and family stability.
good health
1. Increased complications during pregnancy and childbirth: Due to the increasing age of older pregnant women, the functions of various systems of the body will decline, and hypertension, diabetes, anemia and other complications are easy to occur. These complications may have long-term adverse effects on the health of the fetus and mother.
2. Increased risk of birth defects: research shows that the risk of congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities of children born to elderly mothers is significantly increased. For example, the incidence of Down's syndrome, heart disease and other problems will be significantly higher than that of children of young mothers.
3. Increased pregnancy complications: Due to the limitation of physiological conditions, older pregnant women are more likely to have pregnancy complications, such as premature delivery, placental dysfunction, fetal growth retardation, etc., which may have a negative impact on the healthy development of the fetus.
Intellectual development
1. Decreased learning ability: children born at an advanced age may have relatively slow intellectual development and weak learning ability. The study found that these children may have large gaps in language learning, memory and attention.
2. Psychological development delay: there may be some delay in emotional management, social ability and behavior control of older children. This may be related to the physical status, energy shortage and time allocation of older parents.
3. Increased opportunities for mental retardation: children born at an advanced age are more likely to suffer from autism, mental retardation and other psychological development problems than children born to young mothers. These problems may require long-term treatment and rehabilitation.
Emotional needs
1. Tense parent-child relationship: parents who give birth at an advanced age often have high career pressure and limited time, which cannot meet their children's emotional needs. This may lead to tension between parents and children, and affect the formation of children's self-esteem and self-confidence.
2. Increased social barriers: Due to the obvious gap with parents of the same age, children born at an advanced age may feel confused and unsure in their social interactions with peers, thus increasing the incidence of social difficulties.
3. Unstable family environment: parents who give birth at an advanced age are likely to face health problems or die during the growth of their children, which may lead to unstable family environment and a long-term lack of security for their children.
Family stability
1. Increased economic pressure: parents who give birth at an advanced age may need to spend more time and energy to educate and care for their children, which increases the family's economic pressure.
2. Less elderly backbone: After the children born at an advanced age grow up, their parents have entered old age, and they may lack the elderly backbone who have experienced combat as support, posing challenges to the growth and development of children.
3. Big gap between brothers and sisters: children born at an advanced age usually have no brothers and sisters, which will lead to their lack of mutual interaction and common growth experience in the family, which will have a certain impact on their social adaptability.
To sum up, the adverse effects of elderly childbearing on children are mainly reflected in physical health, intellectual development, emotional needs and family stability. Therefore, from the perspective of children's overall health and happiness, reasonable planning of childbearing time will be more conducive to children's growth and development.
